STABILITY of Solution of ODE

(and a bit of stability of Method of finding solution of ODE)

To show that

s ' =s ( 1s )=

s (t)

is the analytical solution of the problem, we need to show

d
x
x
, s=
t
t
dt x+ e ( 1x )
x +e (1x)

Stability of ODE solution is determined by the perturbations of solution that do

not diverge away over time. Based on the graph, we could conclude that the
solution is asymptotically stable for

x> 0

and stable for

if the solution stable, the solution is convergent as

lim

lim S=
t

x
x
= =1,x> 0
x + e ( 1x) x
0
lim t =0 ,x=0
t e
t

x=0 . In other word,

t .

X
S(x)

0
0

1
1

2
1.2254

3
1.3249

4
1.3810

5
1.4170

Taylor series suggest that

S ( x + ) S ( x ) if

as well approach the actual solution

S ( x)

0, however,

if

S' ( x ) 0

when

S (x + )

would

S' ( x ) 0

for

any > 0 . Hence we could conclude from our result that perturbation would

result in significant effect to the solution as

x0